UAX #14: no line breaks between OP and QU, even if there are intervening spaces
"Arnt Richard Johansen" <[email protected]>
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In UAX #14, rule LB15 states "Do not break within ‘”[’, even with
intervening spaces." This is formalised as
QU SP* × OP
What is the rationale behind this rule?
I can't think of any example where breaking at the intervening spaces
would create undesirable results, whereas NOT breaking at the intervening
spaces will tend to break up very short quotations in favour of keeping
the trailing end of the quotation together with a following parenthetical
remark.
As an example, given a sufficiently small text area width, the algorithm
will break text this way:
"The
Wire" (2005)
but never this way:
"The Wire"
(2005)
which is IMHO more logical.
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Arnt Richard Johansen
Web technology tester
Core QA, Opera Software